重點句型:
1. Then she leapt backwards, back arched and fur on end, tail held out stiffly.
然后它向后一躍,脊背拱起,毛發豎立,尾巴僵直地挺立著。
2. Then he stood still, close to the trunk of the nearest tree, as a truck came round the circle and swept its lights over him.
然后他靜靜地站著,緊靠離他最近的一棵樹干,這時一輛卡車轉彎過來,燈光照到他的身上。
3. It looked as if someone had cut a patch out of the air, about two meters from the edge of the road, a patch roughly square in shape and less than a metre across.
看上去就像有人在距離路邊大約兩米的地方將空間切開了一塊,它大體呈方形,不到一米寬。
4. If you were level with the patch so that it was edge?on, it was nearly invisible, and it was completely invisible from behind.
如果你與那塊空間處在同等高度,從側面看你幾乎看不到它,從后面則完全看不見它。
5. What he saw made his head swim and his heart thump harder, but he didn't hesitate...
他看到的一切使他頭暈目眩,心跳加速,但他卻絲毫沒有遲疑……
6. She had the extra burden of looking after her baby daughter while she worked, and because she was too poor to own a typewriter, she wrote by hand.
她在工作的同時還要肩負另外的責任,那就是照顧小女兒。由于貧窮,買不起打字機,她只好手寫書稿。
句型探究:
1. Of course, every cat behaved like that, but all the same Will felt such a longing to turn for home that tears scalded his eyes.
當然,所有貓都是那樣的。盡管如此,威爾還是渴望回家,以至于熱淚盈眶。
本句中含有such...that...句型, 表示“如此……以至于……”,such后修飾名詞,如果是單數可數名詞,其順序為“such+ a(an)+形容詞+名詞+that”。